Colorado State Patrol officer Jessie Bartunek talks to a motorist as he stands at a checkpoint near South Fork, Colo., Sunday, June 23, 2013. A large wildfire near a popular summer retreat in southern Colorado continues to be driven by winds and fueled by dead trees in a drought-stricken area, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Colorado wildfires

•June 12, 2013

Heavy winds fanning drought-stricken, beetle-killed forest shows no signs of relenting and is threatening a tourist town in Colorado's southwestern mountains. South Fork,

home to about 400 full-time residents, was evacuated as the West Fork Fire moves closer. Elsewhere, the

22-square-mile Black Forest wildfire near Colorado Springs left two

people dead and burned more than 500 houses. That blaze is now the most